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the colgate maroon founded 1868 vol c colgate university hamilton n v may 2 1968 no 23 phi tau accepts theta chi denies open housing by barry fenton 70 recent events at phi kap pa tau and theta chi have continued the open hous ing controversy that has been raging since the faculty pass ed its open-housing resolution april 8 phi tau joined phi gamm tke and alpha delt in choos ing the principle of open housing for their modus oper andi but theta chi chose to maintain the status quo and retain selectivity last week phi tau amend ed its constitution with a res olution passed the week be fore stipulating that the mode of determining new members to this fraternity henceforth shall be . . in the most equitable manner with in the concepts of open hous ing and non-selectivity the candidates for president of the class of 1969 are allan frank eric edwards gene det wiler and larry blake running for secretary are steve keiser peter baum and john arle can didates for treasurer are david grant and richard umpleby primaries will be held this monday may 6 and finals on thursday may 9 the proposal introduced by hans inner 68 passed by a vote of 57-21 none of the dissenters have deactivated as yet matter of convenience when asked about why he chose to remain in the house one of the dissenters replied if it weren't for the fact that i need the board job i have at the house i would and the proposal introduced by hans inner 68 passed by a vote of 57-21 none of the dissenters have deactivated as matter of convenience when asked about why he chose to remain in the house one of the dissenters replied if it weren't for the fact that i need the board job i have at the house i would and he added that there were prob ably others like him who were staying in the house as a matter of convenience the issue said al frank 69 one of the backers of open housing was not discrimina tion but rather it was the pro blem of the superficiality of the selective system gerry lacavera 69 agreed that there is a problem with the selective system but add ed that he voted against open housing because he felt that it would be better to try and make the system more mean ingful before it is cut out al together he also said that he thought it was the right of the fraternity as a social group to choose its own mem bers another dissenter said that he would rather have played the game and lost than not to have played at all this was countered by steve wax 70 who said that open housing is the only morally justifiable way for a fraternity to oper ate as an autonomous living unit within the framework of a liberal arts institution theta chi at theta chi the story was reversed the open hous ing resolution passed by a nar row majority 37-34 but fell far short of the 2/3 necessary to have it ratified as a con silent vigil the chapel vigil for peace was enlarged last friday to show sympathy for april protest for story on inarch see page 9 photo by conard nsa referendum held black power supported by steven weintraub 70 in a campus-wide referen dum last thursday the stu dent body supported three resolutions passed by last summer's national student association congress confirm ing the validity of the uni versity delegation's voting re cord at the convention the three resolutions con cerning the draft drugs and black power all passed by large pluralities the black power resolution however passed with the exclusion of the clause black power is the unification of all black people in america for their liberation by any means nec essary black power black power is the estab lishment of racial pride iden tity purpose social and cul tural power and influence for the black people in america the black power resolution reads it is the emancipation of the black man from what the white man thinks is best for him a majority of votes sup ported the black power res olution excluding the contro versial by any means neces sary clause only three houses whitnall tke and lambda chi voted for the en tire resolution although only two houses dkeand phi delt voted against the resolution in either form six other hous es were more opposed than in support of the entire res olution a typical sentiment among many of the people who voted no and cared to comment was if some ne gro comes at me with a gun only one of us is going to walk away draft resolution the draft resolution pro poses that the selective ser vice system be abolished and replaced by a voluntary army until this can be ac complished the resolution calls for the abolition of near ly all deferments including the 2-s student deferment all but three houses ato goetz recall petition withdrawn at senate by d john loden 69 although containing the necessary number of signa tures a petition demanding the recall of senior class president philip e goetz and a new election for the honor ary office was withdrawn by its originator peter acker - man 68 at the senate meet ing monday in withdrawing the peti tion ackerman said we es pecially regret the false ac cusations â€” often of an un necessarily personal nature â€” that have surrounded the is sue we can no longer be per suaded that a new election will foster either the healthy or limited debate that was and still is desirable for the sake of mutual understand ing therefore as is our right as petitioners we are with drawing our request for recall in the trust that the senior class presidency will again become as non-controversial and as unobtrusive as is hu manly possible last week the senate had ruled that a petition contain ing the names of one-third of the senior class would be suf ficient grounds for re-elec tion on tuesday a petition with 150 signatures was re turned to the elections com mittee of the senate dissatisfaction the petition expressed dis satisfaction with the manner in which goetz had been con ducting the duties of his of fice particularly during the recent administration build ing sit-in after the sit-in goetz appeared before meet ings of the alumni council and the board of trustees as a representative of over 750 university students who had signed a petition favoring the fraternity system although goetz claims to have explicit ly dissociated his own views from the views of his class mates the petitioners main tained his actions were not clear at a special meeting of the senior class on friday goetz stated under no circum stances was i invited to speak columbia a different sit-in by robert b donin 71 news analysis this account was written before police broke up the columbia sit-in early tuesday morning columbia university's five building sit-in began in ham ilton hall the chenango val ley version took place in hamilton new york the two demonstrations have little else in common colgate demonstrators con stituted a quarter of the col lege's undergraduate enroll ment ; columbia's sitters-in form a tiny minority colgate's administration entered into direct negotia tions with striking students at the outset of the hundred hour marathon at columbia president grayson kirk's of fice has been forced to lay low strikers here attained the essence of their demands while reaching a reasonable compromise which allowed fundamental university activ ity to resume the chances of columbia's protestors gaining satisfaction of their demands are substantially reduced by their insistence on amnesty many colgate faculty mem bers took a partisan stand on the phi delt issue columbia's staff has chosen to play the role of mediator cajoling bargaining sometimes fanag ling sit-in split in the university adminis tration building black and white together emerged as a keystone principle at colum bia there are in reality two demonstrations with two dif ferent goals one by black students another by whites the phi delt issue attract ed no direct involvement by persons outside the campus community at columbia the concern of residents outside the morningside campus is pivotal columbia an never be lifted from the context of harlem the demands of the stu dent groups which have im mobilized columbia â€” stu dents for a democratic soci ety and students afro-ameri can society â€” focus on a per manent halt to construction of a gymnasium in city-own ed morningside park and dis affiliation with the institute for defense analysis a 12 school consortium which does research for the government controversy over the gymnasium centers around charges of segregation be cause architects plans pro sitting tight columbia demonstrators perch on ledge outside president grayson kirk's office continued on page 11 continued on page 3 continued on page 8 continued on page 10

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the colgate maroon founded 1868 vol c colgate university hamilton n v may 2 1968 no 23 phi tau accepts theta chi denies open housing by barry fenton 70 recent events at phi kap pa tau and theta chi have continued the open hous ing controversy that has been raging since the faculty pass ed its open-housing resolution april 8 phi tau joined phi gamm tke and alpha delt in choos ing the principle of open housing for their modus oper andi but theta chi chose to maintain the status quo and retain selectivity last week phi tau amend ed its constitution with a res olution passed the week be fore stipulating that the mode of determining new members to this fraternity henceforth shall be . . in the most equitable manner with in the concepts of open hous ing and non-selectivity the candidates for president of the class of 1969 are allan frank eric edwards gene det wiler and larry blake running for secretary are steve keiser peter baum and john arle can didates for treasurer are david grant and richard umpleby primaries will be held this monday may 6 and finals on thursday may 9 the proposal introduced by hans inner 68 passed by a vote of 57-21 none of the dissenters have deactivated as yet matter of convenience when asked about why he chose to remain in the house one of the dissenters replied if it weren't for the fact that i need the board job i have at the house i would and the proposal introduced by hans inner 68 passed by a vote of 57-21 none of the dissenters have deactivated as matter of convenience when asked about why he chose to remain in the house one of the dissenters replied if it weren't for the fact that i need the board job i have at the house i would and he added that there were prob ably others like him who were staying in the house as a matter of convenience the issue said al frank 69 one of the backers of open housing was not discrimina tion but rather it was the pro blem of the superficiality of the selective system gerry lacavera 69 agreed that there is a problem with the selective system but add ed that he voted against open housing because he felt that it would be better to try and make the system more mean ingful before it is cut out al together he also said that he thought it was the right of the fraternity as a social group to choose its own mem bers another dissenter said that he would rather have played the game and lost than not to have played at all this was countered by steve wax 70 who said that open housing is the only morally justifiable way for a fraternity to oper ate as an autonomous living unit within the framework of a liberal arts institution theta chi at theta chi the story was reversed the open hous ing resolution passed by a nar row majority 37-34 but fell far short of the 2/3 necessary to have it ratified as a con silent vigil the chapel vigil for peace was enlarged last friday to show sympathy for april protest for story on inarch see page 9 photo by conard nsa referendum held black power supported by steven weintraub 70 in a campus-wide referen dum last thursday the stu dent body supported three resolutions passed by last summer's national student association congress confirm ing the validity of the uni versity delegation's voting re cord at the convention the three resolutions con cerning the draft drugs and black power all passed by large pluralities the black power resolution however passed with the exclusion of the clause black power is the unification of all black people in america for their liberation by any means nec essary black power black power is the estab lishment of racial pride iden tity purpose social and cul tural power and influence for the black people in america the black power resolution reads it is the emancipation of the black man from what the white man thinks is best for him a majority of votes sup ported the black power res olution excluding the contro versial by any means neces sary clause only three houses whitnall tke and lambda chi voted for the en tire resolution although only two houses dkeand phi delt voted against the resolution in either form six other hous es were more opposed than in support of the entire res olution a typical sentiment among many of the people who voted no and cared to comment was if some ne gro comes at me with a gun only one of us is going to walk away draft resolution the draft resolution pro poses that the selective ser vice system be abolished and replaced by a voluntary army until this can be ac complished the resolution calls for the abolition of near ly all deferments including the 2-s student deferment all but three houses ato goetz recall petition withdrawn at senate by d john loden 69 although containing the necessary number of signa tures a petition demanding the recall of senior class president philip e goetz and a new election for the honor ary office was withdrawn by its originator peter acker - man 68 at the senate meet ing monday in withdrawing the peti tion ackerman said we es pecially regret the false ac cusations â€” often of an un necessarily personal nature â€” that have surrounded the is sue we can no longer be per suaded that a new election will foster either the healthy or limited debate that was and still is desirable for the sake of mutual understand ing therefore as is our right as petitioners we are with drawing our request for recall in the trust that the senior class presidency will again become as non-controversial and as unobtrusive as is hu manly possible last week the senate had ruled that a petition contain ing the names of one-third of the senior class would be suf ficient grounds for re-elec tion on tuesday a petition with 150 signatures was re turned to the elections com mittee of the senate dissatisfaction the petition expressed dis satisfaction with the manner in which goetz had been con ducting the duties of his of fice particularly during the recent administration build ing sit-in after the sit-in goetz appeared before meet ings of the alumni council and the board of trustees as a representative of over 750 university students who had signed a petition favoring the fraternity system although goetz claims to have explicit ly dissociated his own views from the views of his class mates the petitioners main tained his actions were not clear at a special meeting of the senior class on friday goetz stated under no circum stances was i invited to speak columbia a different sit-in by robert b donin 71 news analysis this account was written before police broke up the columbia sit-in early tuesday morning columbia university's five building sit-in began in ham ilton hall the chenango val ley version took place in hamilton new york the two demonstrations have little else in common colgate demonstrators con stituted a quarter of the col lege's undergraduate enroll ment ; columbia's sitters-in form a tiny minority colgate's administration entered into direct negotia tions with striking students at the outset of the hundred hour marathon at columbia president grayson kirk's of fice has been forced to lay low strikers here attained the essence of their demands while reaching a reasonable compromise which allowed fundamental university activ ity to resume the chances of columbia's protestors gaining satisfaction of their demands are substantially reduced by their insistence on amnesty many colgate faculty mem bers took a partisan stand on the phi delt issue columbia's staff has chosen to play the role of mediator cajoling bargaining sometimes fanag ling sit-in split in the university adminis tration building black and white together emerged as a keystone principle at colum bia there are in reality two demonstrations with two dif ferent goals one by black students another by whites the phi delt issue attract ed no direct involvement by persons outside the campus community at columbia the concern of residents outside the morningside campus is pivotal columbia an never be lifted from the context of harlem the demands of the stu dent groups which have im mobilized columbia â€” stu dents for a democratic soci ety and students afro-ameri can society â€” focus on a per manent halt to construction of a gymnasium in city-own ed morningside park and dis affiliation with the institute for defense analysis a 12 school consortium which does research for the government controversy over the gymnasium centers around charges of segregation be cause architects plans pro sitting tight columbia demonstrators perch on ledge outside president grayson kirk's office continued on page 11 continued on page 3 continued on page 8 continued on page 10